Re: Any idea about watchdog timer in linux

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Kousalya K wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to call a timer function to get current time within kernel space. I
> don't want any function call to do this.
> Any idea ? In AIX we have watchdog stucture and w_stop, w_start, w_init
> functions are there to stop, initiate and start the watchdog timer.
> Anything like that is available in linux?
>
I think you are after the add_timer() del_timer_sync() stuff. These
timers are in units of HZ and cause a function to be called when they
expire. Most of them are deleted prior to expire time.

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